Creative Commons Question - Canadaoer

10 Apr 2018

I received the following email from our copyright office today. My initial thought is he
can’t use it in the journal article, but I want to confirm this. Thank you.

Hi Heather,

A researcher with Geological Sciences named Jamal came in the other day to ask Kate some
questions about a paper he would like to publish. We aren’t certain, but we think he wants
to publish in a traditional (i.e., not open) geology journal.  He has pictures from five
different sources he would like to include.  Four are third-party images from already
published books are journal article. The last image is a creative commons
image<http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/latelogin.jspx?records=:579552&r=1523389539059#1523389548982_1>
with a CC BY-SA 4.0<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/> licence.

Because it is a CC share-alike licence, Kate would like to confirm with you if Jamal can
use the image in the article if the entire article cannot be licenced CC BY-SA 4.0. Can
the article be published with only the one image maintaining the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, and
the rest of the article have the standard “all rights reserved” copyright protection?

Thanks!
Shelby

Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)
Educational Developer (Digital Pedagogies)
Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning

Research Fellow
Open Education Group

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University of Saskatchewan
Tel: 306.966.5327
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